Docs for your desktop lets you to sync your files in Docs to your computer and vice versa. The syncing is instantaneous, meaning, the syncing happens whenever you modify or add a new file or a folder either in Docs or in your computer. This helps you to work on your files offline, which gets updated to your Docs as soon as you go online. You can even sync your files to multiple computers using the same Docs account, which enables you to work from any of your computer, be it your office or a home computer.
Docs for Desktop can be installed on a Windows, Mac or Linux computers.
After Successful installation,
Specify your username and password to sign-in. After signing in, you will be asked to choose the sync folder to which the files from Docs be synced
Note: If you are connected to the internet via a proxy server, you will see an error as "Could not connect to Server" with a link to configure Proxy Server.
The default sync folder location will be c:\users\<user name>\. You can change it to a preferred location. The next step is to choose the folders in your Docs to be synced to your computer. Click Docs Folders button
The default option is to sync all the folders in your Docs account. You can choose to sync only the selected folders from your account. Select the required option and click OK. Click Next to see the summary of your setup.
Click Finish to complete the setup and to start syncing. You can verify the status of the sync from the Docs icon available in your system tray.
If the computer do not have a direct internet connection, you can specify how Docs should reach the internet. You can get into this screen by either clicking the Configure Proxy link on your login screen or by choosing the Settings option by right-clicking the Docs icon from your system tray.
Specify the details of the Proxy server and the authentication details, if required, and click OK.
Docs lets the users set the bandwidth limit for upload and download. While the default is set at "Low" for both upload and download, the users can change as per their requirement.
By default, Docs will sync all the files from your Docs account to your computer. If you have missed to choose the folders during the initial setup or if you wish to change the setting at a later point, you can do by choosing the Settings right-click menu from the Docs icon in the system tray.
Click the Docs folder and choose the required option
Choose the Folders that you would need to sync and click OK.
Note: If you have already synced all folders initially and if you choose to remove few folders now, those folders and files will automatically get deleted from your computer, provided the file versions on computer and your Docs are the same.
If you have multiple computers, say one at the office and one at home, you can still sync the files in your Docs account to all the computers. All you have to do is to download the Docs Sync and install on all the computers to which you wish to sync your contents. Follow the steps below:
Download and install Docs on all the computers to which you wish to sync your contents
Use the same account to login in all the computers
Follow the setup instructions to configure proxy settings and to choose the folders.
The settings need not be the same in all the computers. For example, you can choose to sync all the folders in one computer and only selected folders in another.
It is all set now. Whenever there is a change in the files in any of the computer, it automatically get updated in all the other computers and to your Docs and vice versa
When you no longer wish to sync your Docs and the computer, you can Disconnect that computer. When you Disconnect a computer, the contents of your sync folder in that computer is not deleted, only the sync between that computer and Docs is stopped.
Choose Settings from the right-click menu of Docs icon from the system tray.
Select the General tab
Click Disconnect This Computer button. Click OK on the confirmation message